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• Performing modern Korea in the U.S.: Korean immigrants' theatrical activities in California and Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century 

  Jeon, Young Ji (2015-12-02)

  This dissertation investigates theatrical activities by Korean immigrants in the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century. As a result of the fact that Koreans regarded their national territory as tainted by the ...

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• The performance and reception of flash mobs: authenticity, YouTube, and the fantastic 

  Gailey, Benjamin Joseph (2015-07-17)

  This dissertation analyzes the performance methodology and reception of various flash mobs performed from 2003 to 2015. This twelve year history is separated into three periods. The first period consists of Bill Wasik’s ...

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• (Im)possibilities of building community and negotiating belonging in institutional theatre during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia: a comparative study of cases from Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade 

  Sohaj, Mina (2015-07-15)

  This dissertation examines how and to what end institutional theatre participates in the process of building community and negotiating belonging from 1991 to 1995 during two major conflicts of the Yugoslav Succession Wars: ...

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• "Off -Louisville": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville 

  Ullom, Robert Jeffrey (2000)

  By charting the changes in the festival, several questions will be answered throughout this dissertation: How did the festival succeed? After twenty years of producing new works, Actors Theatre and the Humana Festival have ...

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• Poetics of Displacement: Twentieth -Century Chinese -Western Intercultural Theatre 

  Tian, Min (2001)

  The first chapter of Part Two deals with the Chinese intercultural displacement of Western realism and avant-garde in the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapter Six is concerned with the Chinese displacement of ...

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